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After a long debate, close to three hours, finally, on Tuesday have been approved by the full municipal budgets for this year 2017, whose amount reaches 188,748,551 euros, 0.15 percent more with respect to the Of 2016, and that the Councilor for Finance, Isabel García, has described as realistic and adjusted to the principle of prudence, giving an important role to the demands of citizens.
In this sense, the mayor recalled the departure of 1.5 million euros for the participatory budgets, a pilot experience that has served to take the pulse of the citizens and what are their needs, as well as the fact that in the Preparation of this budget has worked with the Neighborhood Boards.
The turn of interventions gave the opportunity to the municipal groups to make clear their position on the document presented by the government team.
Thus, CTSSP councilor Francisco Martínez reiterated his group's rejection of budgets submitted late (they should have been approved before December 31), which does not solve the issue of continuing to pay for more water Face of all Spain and that, although an effort has been made to make progress in monitoring Hidrogea, it has not been possible to control Lhicarsa or to dissolve Casco Antiguo.
Citizens' spokesman, Manuel Padín, pointed out the position of his group in favor of the municipal government to push forward the budgets, based on our firm commitment to defend the interests of Cartagena, since the activity Is subject to the approval of this budget.
According to Padín, this support is the result of an agreement that has been reached prior to the plenary, whereby the government has committed to contemplate water reduction and approve the partial amendments submitted by citizens.
Francisco Espejo, spokesman for the popular group, intervened next, who gave the project budgets the qualifications of conservative and continuist, as well as forgetting the investment, removing debt but not improving infrastructure for the city, nor investing in generating jobs and destroying our beaches With the dissolution of IMSEL.
The mayor of the PP ended his speech by questioning the effectiveness of the drop in water and participatory budgets.
The final approval of the draft budgets has had the votes in favor of MC (Citizen Movement), PSOE (Socialist Party) and Citizens, and against PP (Partido Popular) and CTSSP (Cartagena Si Se Puede-We Can), including The eight partial amendments submitted by the Citizens group.
These amendments, which have been approved by adding to the votes of Citizens the MC and PSOE (against has voted CTSSP, while PP has abstained) refer to budget changes that will allocate items to the integral plan and works of Improvement of the Plaza del Lago, intervention in the Amphitheater, adaptation of the Torres Park, construction of public urinals, the integral accessibility plan of the municipality, the conditioning of CATAD and a study of conditioning access to Hospital Santa Lucía.
The sixteen partial amendments of the Popular Party group (on a leisure plan for young people, improvements in the taxi sector, performances for entrepreneurs, asphalting plan in neighborhoods and councils, etc.) have not all come in the same fate. Were rejected with votes against PSOE, MC and CTSSP, and Citizens' abstention, as well as the total amendments to both CTSSP (rejected with votes against MC, PSOE and CD, and abstention of PP) and PP (Votes against MC, PSOE and CD, and abstention of CTSSP).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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